Dean's Professor of Cancer Research

Overview

Robert W. Sobol is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University and was also recently named the Associate Director for basic research and co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the Le­gorreta Cancer Center at Brown Univer­sity. In these roles, he leads efforts toward continued growth of the department and of the basic science programs at the Le­gorreta Cancer Center.

 

At Brown, my lab’s research will focus on the role of the DNA base excision repair pathway in the regu­lation of PARP activation and the re­sponse to replication stress, and the identification of novel targets to over­come PARP-inhibitor resistance. We are also working on the development of novel biological tools and assays to evaluate PARP-activation, genotoxic stress, and gene-environment interac­tions and the utilization of these novel tools for the analysis of tumor response, the response to industrial pollutants, and the discovery of molecules that in­hibit cellular repair. Further, my lab has a translational focus on how these PARP-dependent DNA dam­age response pathways impact tumor cell survival, genotoxicity, cellular aging, and response to chemo- and immune checkpoint-based therapies.

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